Detail: Time ~ 6:45 PM - 7:45 PM (Doors 6.30pm)

The first in a series of talks exploring the history of Asian contributions to science. From Samarkand to Cordoba, from the advances in algebra of Musa al-Khwarizmi in 9th century Baghdad and the engineering of the 13th century Turkish engineer al-Jazari to the medical research of ibn Sina, Islamic scholars made a remarkable contribution to scientific progress. Ehsan Masood charts the history of the Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1500CE and considers the status of science in the Islamic world today with writer and pioneering thinker on contemporary Islam Ziauddin Sardar.
Eshan Masood is Acting Chief Commissioning Editor at Nature magazine and lecturer in International Science Policy at Imperial College London. He writes for Prospect Magazine and is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Home Planet’.
Ziauddin Sardar is a writer, scholar, cultural commentator and Professor of Postcolonial Studies at City University, London.

Tickets £10, Asia House Friends and concessions £5

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